World Spider Catalog

Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Family | ACCEPTED

N.B.: considered a senior synonym of Lyssomanidae Blackwall, 1877 by Galiano, 1976b: 67; for illustrations of scale morphology of about 60 species, see Hill, 1979; for the phylogeny within the family see Maddison & Hedin, 2003b, Maddison, 2015, Maddison et al., 2017, Prószyński, 2017b and Zhang et al., 2024f; the subfamilies Asemoneinae Maddison, 2015, Eupoinae Maddison, 2015, Hisponinae Simon 1901, Lyssomaninae, Onomastinae Maddison, 2015, Salticinae and Spartaeinae Wanless, 1984 are confirmed by Zhang et al., 2024f: 347.

In synonymy:

Bavirecta Kanesharatnam & Benjamin, 2018 = Padillothorax Simon, 1901 (Maddison et al., 2020b: 65)

Gen. Padillothorax Simon, 1901 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:04455

type Padillothorax semiostrinus Simon, 1901; gender masculine

N.B.: considered a junior synonym of Stagetillus Simon, 1885 by Prószyński, 1987: 104 (by transfer of the type species Padillothorax semiostrinus Simon, 1901); Prószyński, 2017b: 26 revalidated Padillothorax, but not including P. semiostrinus, which was invalid; Prószyński, 2018b: 174 revalidated Padillothorax inclusively its type species; considered a junior synonym of Bavirecta Kanesharatnam & Benjamin, 2018: 3 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:04459] (type B. flavopuncta Kanesharatnam & Benjamin, 2018) by Maddison, in Maddison et al., 2020b: 65.

Padillothorax badut Maddison, 2020 | | Malaysia (Borneo) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:052627

Padillothorax badut Maddison in Maddison et al., 2020b: 69, f. 10, 33, 168-175 (Dmf) Original description

Padillothorax casteti (Simon, 1900) | | India urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:035631

Piranthus casteti Simon, 1900b: 396 (Df) Original description

Piranthus casteti Prószyński, 1987: 78 (f)

Bavirecta casteti Caleb et al., 2019b: 573 (T from Piranthus)

Padillothorax casteti Maddison in Maddison et al., 2020b: 65 (T from Bavirecta)

Padillothorax exilis (Cao & Li, 2016) | | China, Vietnam urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:048879

Bavia exilis Cao & Li in Cao, Li & Żabka, 2016: 54, f. 7A-D, 8A-B (Dm) Original description

Bavirecta exilis Kanesharatnam & Benjamin, 2018: 8 (T from Bavia)

Padillothorax exilis Maddison in Maddison et al., 2020b: 65 (T from Bavirecta)

Padillothorax exilis Wang et al., 2024n: 232, f. 18A-E, 19A-E (m, Df)

Padillothorax exilis Phuong et al., 2025: 42, f. 9-11 (f)

Padillothorax flavopunctus (Kanesharatnam & Benjamin, 2018) | | Sri Lanka urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:050346

Bavirecta flavopuncta Kanesharatnam & Benjamin, 2018: 4, f. 1A-E, 2A-D, 3A-D (Dmf) Original description

Padillothorax flavopunctus Maddison in Maddison et al., 2020b: 69 (T from Bavirecta)

Padillothorax mulu Maddison, 2020 | | Malaysia (Borneo) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:052628

Padillothorax mulu Maddison in Maddison et al., 2020b: 71, f. 18, 25, 176-187 (Dmf) Original description

Padillothorax semiostrinus Simon, 1901 | | Vietnam, Malaysia (peninsula), Singapore, Taiwan? urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:036321 TYPE SPECIES

Padillothorax semiostrinus Simon, 1901a: 471, f. 535 (m)

Padillothorax semiostrinus Simon, 1901k: 71 (Dm) Original description

Padillothorax semiostrinus Maddison et al., 2020b: 66, f. 9, 17, 24, 32, 158-167 (m)

Padillothorax semiostrinus Phuong et al., 2025: 39, f. 1-8 (m, Df)

Padillothorax taprobanicus Simon, 1902 | | Sri Lanka urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:036322

Padillothorax taprobanicus Simon, 1902d: 24 (Dmf) Original description

"Padillothorax" taprobanicus Prószyński, 2017b: 26 (T to Padillothorax, cf. comment at the genus Stagetillus)

Padillothorax taprobanicus Prószyński, 2018b: 175 (T from Stagetillus, species inquirenda)